[Content Note: Racism; appropriation; white supremacy.]
Jenny Zhang on white poet Michael Derrick Hudson's use of the Chinese pen name Yi-Fen Chou: "They Pretend to Be Us While Pretending We Don't Exist."
This is just an extraordinary piece of writing. I'm not even going to excerpt it; just go read the whole thing.
[H/T to my friend OKG.]
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